Made of shoddy: as, shoddy cloth. Hence Of a trashy or inferior character: as, shoddy literature.

Pretending to an excellence not possessed; pretentious; sham; counterfeit; ambitious for prominence or influence not deserved by character or breeding, but aspired to on account of newly acquired wealth: as, a shoddy aristocracy. See I., 2.

To illustrate their points, they included snapshots of singed power cables, partially torn-off sections of paneling and defective parts of thrust nozzles in the engines as evidence of what they described as a shoddy work ethic at Airbus and its suppliers.

But if, as appears to be the case, the overwhelming majority of homeowners facing foreclosure have fallen far behind on their payments, then it is a good deal harder to summon up the same moral outrage over reports that the banks and loan service companies cut corners, failed to keep the right documents and engaged in shoddy and even fraudulent practices.

But whatever the author is trying to say about friendship, aging, and habit, it's too meager a reward for struggling through vague, drifting, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't plotlines, sentences beginning with "know" and plain shoddy writing.

The city comptroller’s office uncovered what it described as shoddy recordkeeping, suspicious real estate deals and auctions run by a shadowy company that vanished when auditors started asking questions.

If "shoddy" is defined as "cheap and shoddy", then isn't "shoddy" actually "cheap and cheap and cheap and cheap and cheap and..." in an endless succession of "cheap"s? In fact, I believe shoddy would simply be "cheap" ad infinitum, never actually getting to the shoddy bit at all.